Schindler's Ark book review - 1982 Booker Prize Publisher’s synopsis: In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist became a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. This is the story of Oskar Schindler, a womaniser and drinker who risked his life to protect beleaguered Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, who continually defied the SS, and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission. Extract: On the one hand, Oskar had made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency. He knows, that is, earlier than most would dare know it, what Sonderhandlung means, that though Treblinka, and in that complex west of Cracow known to Poles as Oswiecim-Brzezinka but which will be known to the West by its German name Auschwitz-Birkenau. Reviews: Good: This remarkable book has the immediacy and the almost unbearable detail of a thousand eye witnesses who forgot nothing.

New York Times Book Review Not so good: In other words, Schindler's Ark is a book which demonstrates that behind the statistic of six million Holocaust deaths, there are six million personal tragedies. More, indeed, if we count all the people who lost their friends, lovers, sisters brothers, parents, grandparents and – God help us – children. I'm ashamed to say that it's precisely for that reason that I put off reading the 1982 Booker winner for years. I found intimate terror in Primo Levi and Sophie's Choice so depressing that I avoided similar material – until this blog series reached Schindler's Ark. My reasoning was deplorable, both in terms of moral weakness and because (as I am perhaps one of the last people on earth to discover) Schindler's Ark is actually one of the most uplifting books you could hope to read. In spite of everything. For the benefit of those wallowing in the same kind of ignorance as I was, Oskar Schindler is a man who offered, in Keneally's words, "an acre of safety in that square mileage of horror" and saved more than 1,000 Jews from the death camps.

The Guardian Booker Blog, Sam Jordan, 15th May 2009 for full review click here About the author Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney in 1935. He completed his schooling at various schools on the New South Wales north coast before commencing theological studies for the Catholic priesthood. He abandoned this vocation in 1960 and turned to clerical work and teaching before publishing his first novel in 1964. Keneally has been short-listed for the Booker Prize on four occasions: in 1972 for The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest in 1975, and Confederates in 1979. Thomas Keneally was awarded the Order of Australia in 1983 for his services to Australian Literature. He lives in Sydney. Thomas Keneally (Author of Schindler's List) edit data Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction.

He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982, which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Often published under the name Tom Keneally in Australia. Life and Career: Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where a writing prize was named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest but left before his ordination. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his succe Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982, which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Often published under the name Tom Keneally in Australia. Life and Career: Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where a writing prize was named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest but left before his ordination. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist, and he was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968–70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books. Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark (1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List (1993). Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films.

He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the Fred Schepisi movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly-titled documentary by Lucy Walker about the Amish rite of passage called rumspringa). In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. He is a strong advocate of the Australian republic, meaning the severing of all ties with the British monarchy, and published a book on the subject in Our Republic (1993). Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement. Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the NRL. He made an appearance in the rugby league drama film The Final Winter (2007). In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's Lincoln biography to President Barack Obama as a state gift.

Most recently Thomas Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama, Our Sunburnt Country. Thomas Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally. ...more Schindlers Ark by Keneally, Thomas Schindler's Ark Keneally, Thomas Sydney: Hodder and Stroughton, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition, 1982; Several dates, but all state 1982, Griffin Limited, Sydney, is also present. Signed & inscribed to Maurice Phillips, and dated by the author on the title page,1982; 8vo,432 pages; dustjacket is mylar wrapped; Black papered boards, white lettering to spine; Previous owner's name on verso free front endpaper, perhaps somebody important, for all signatures are from the same, blue, ball-point pen. Same pen at the same time. Although, the first signature is not clear enough to discern or consign to a somebody for certain. A Fine copy in like DJ. (ie no faults).

A stunning copy of this Booker Prize-winning novel with none of the usual fading to spine. Inscribed signed and dated by the author on title page Schindler's Ark KENEALLY, Thomas London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. This is a very good copy of the uncorrected proof of the first British edition, which precedes the American edition later renamed Schindler's List. There is some light soiling to the front cover and a crease long spine area. Proof copies of this book are quite uncommon. The story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews from the ovens in World War II. The basis for the Academy Award winning film that starred Ralph Fiennes. Laid into the book is a book plate signed by Keneally. Signed by the author. Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally London England: Hodder and Stoughton. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1982. 1st Hodder & Stoughton Edition. Cloth.

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0340278382 Hardback Hardback. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. On the face of it, lusty, wordly Oskar Schindler was a most unlikely missionary. He had moved to Cracow in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Poland to profit from the rich pickings to be had by the bold and by the Ayran. A big man in every sense, with an appetite to match, for success, for women and for drink, Schindler, a Sudeten German, thrived. He rapidly established himself as a powerful Cracow figure, head of a major industrial Jewish-run business, a dabbler in the black market - partly to keep himself and his mistress in the manner to which they were accustomed, partly for the hell of it - and a man with influential connections extending far outside Cracow. Schindler was a man who knew how to play his cards. Yet this was the man whose deeds by the end of the war were to have earned him a place on Mount Zion as one of the honoured dead of the Israeli nation.

On the Avenue of Righteous People a tree bears his name. Schindler was to become a chamption of the oppressed, the protector of the Jews, at a time when prudent people thanked their lucky stars for their birthright and kept their eyes averted. Always a man of extravagant gestures, Schindler was to achieve a series of fantastic feats in his championing of 'his Jews', in fact of any Jew fortunate enough to come under his protection. What began as an instinctive distaste for the bully and the pervert was to develop into an increasingly fervent campaign as the anti-Jewish measures of the Nazis escalated, Schindler succeeded in walking a tightrope between Nazi officials and Jewish contacts - a tightrope which involved him in playing cards for the life of a Jewish girl with the local concentration camp commandant, laying out a personal fortune of bribes, and eventually led him to the gates of Auschwitz to extract his chosen people from under the eyes of the infamous Mengele. This book tells of the exceptional people that he attracted to himself, of the band of courageous women with whom he was involved - and of the nobility and sagacity of individuals whom he came to know among the Jewish people.

But, above all, it exposes the strange quirk of fate, or of human character, which could produce in Schindler a mission to save and yet in others, often very similar in temperament, and eaually far from saintly, a mission to exterminate. 432 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Schindler's Ark Keneally, Thomas London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 432pps. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the the half-title page and a small, faint soil-mark on the bottom of the textblock. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is essentially as new; the original price (7.95 net) is intact.

A very nice, collector's-quality copy of the true first edition (U.K., preceding all others) and basis for the film 'Schindler's List.' ".During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis. More than a thousand others would have been counted among the dead if not for a womanizing, heavydrinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler. One of the most remarkable narratives of the Holocaust, Schindler's List masterfully recreates the daring exploits of Schindler, who used his enormous fortune to build a factory near the concentration camp and saved the lives of over 1,300 Jews. An absorbing, suspenseful and moving account of Oskar Schindler's legacy of life." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover.

Schindlers Ark Keneally, Thomas Stockholm, Sweden: Hemisphere Publishers Ltd., 1983. First Swedish Edition, Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo with 394 pages. Signed by the author to Poldek Pfefferberg or known as Leopold Page who was on Schindler's List and was soley responsible for Thomas Keneally writing the book. "To Mila and Poldek, who were there. Love, Tom Keneally 1983." The book is in very good condition with slight shelfwear and slight bumping to edges. The Dust Jacket is in very good condition with very slight rubbing to covers and very slight tearing (2cm) to edges. The interior is clean and tight. The spine is brown with black text.. Signed by Author. 1st Swedish Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Hardcover. Thomas Keneally - Thomas Keneally Biography - Poem Hunter Thomas Keneally - Thomas Keneally Biography - Poem Hunter Biography Biography of Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction.

He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield. Subsequently, a writing prize there has been named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest. Although he was ordained as a deacon while at the seminary he left without being ordained to the priesthood. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist and was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968–70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books. Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name.

He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark (1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the award-winning Fred Schepisi film The Devil's Playground (1976). In 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. He is a strong advocate of an Australian republic, meaning the abolition of the Australian monarchy, and published a book on the subject Our Republic in 1993. Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement. Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the NRL. in 2004 he gave the sixth annual Tom Brock Lecture.

He made an appearance in the 2007 rugby league drama film The Final Winter. In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Barack Obama as a state gift. Most recently Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama Our Sunburnt Country. Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally who is now the CEO of Basketball Australia. The Tom Keneally Centre opened in August 2011 at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, housing Keneally's books and memorabilia. The site is used for book launches, readings and writing classes. Amazon.com: Books Books Books Advanced Search New Releases Best Sellers The New York Times® Best Sellers Children's Books Textbooks Textbook Rentals Sell Us Your Books Best Books of the Month Kindle eBooks Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael "Mick" Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction.

He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Eva Rinaldi [CC BY-SA 2.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons. Thomas Keneally - 必应 Sign in Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael "Mick" Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Thomas Keneally Life and career Born in Sydney, Keneally grew up in Kempsey. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield. Subsequently, a writing prize there has been named after him.

Keneally entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest. Although he was ordained as a deacon while at the seminary, he left without being ordained to the priesthood. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist and was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968–70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books. Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark (1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the award-winning Fred Schepisi film The Devil's Playground (1976).

In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. Keneally was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to 1995, he was a visiting professor in the writing program at UCI. He is a strong advocate of an Australian republic, meaning the abolition of the Australian monarchy, and published a book on the subject Our Republic in 1993. Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement. Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the NRL. in 2004 he gave the sixth annual Tom Brock Lecture. He made an appearance in the 2007 rugby league drama film The Final Winter. In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President Barack Obama as a state gift.

Most recently[when?] Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama Our Sunburnt Country. Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally who in July 2014 joined Sky News Australia and currently co-hosts the TV news program Keneally and Cameron. The Tom Keneally Centre opened in August 2011 at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, housing Keneally's books and memorabilia. The site is used for book launches, readings and writing classes. Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Main article: Schindler's Ark Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler. Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story.

Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerged from the most unlikely places". The book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007). Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector. In April 2009 a copy of the list (including 801 names) was found in the documentation Thomas Keneally used as research material for his novel.

The Place at Whitton (1964) The Fear (1965), rewritten in (1989) as By the Line Bring Larks and Heroes (1967), winner of the Miles Franklin Award, set in an unidentified British penal colony Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), winner of the Miles Franklin Award, comic novel of a doubting priest The Survivor (1969), a survivor looks back on a disastrous Arctic expedition A Dutiful Daughter (1971), Keneally's personal favourite The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), also filmed. Written through the eyes of an exploited Aborigine who explodes in rage. Based on an actual incident. Keneally has said he would not now presume to write in the voice of an Aborigine, but would have written the story as seen by a white character.

Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974), a novel based loosely on the life of Joan of Arc Gossip from the Forest (1975), tells of the negotiation of the armistice that ended World War I Season in Purgatory (1976), love among Tito's partisans in World War II Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees (1978), a book for children A Victim of the Aurora (1978), a detective story set on an Antarctic expedition Passenger (1979) Confederates (1979), based on Stonewall Jackson's army The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980), Australia at war in 1942 Schindler's Ark (1982), winner of the Booker Prize, later released and filmed as Schindler's List A Family Madness (1985) The Playmaker (1987), prisoners perform a play in Australia in the 18th Century Act of Grace (1985), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) Published as Firestorm in the US By the Line (1989), working-class families face World War II in Sydney Towards Asmara (

1989), the conflict in Eritrea Flying Hero Class (1991), Palestinians hijack an aeroplane carrying an Aboriginal folk dance troupe Chief of Staff (1991), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) Woman of the Inner Sea (1993), Keneally retells a story once told him by a young woman that haunted his imagination Jacko: The Great Intruder (1993), madness and television A River Town (1995) An Angel in Australia (2000), also published as Office of Innocence The Tyrant's Novel (2003), an Australian immigration detainee tells his story The Widow and Her Hero (2007), the effect of war on those left behind The People's Train (2009), a dissident escapes from Russia to Australia in 1911, only to return to fight in the revolution The Daughters of Mars (2012), two Australian sisters struggle to nurse soldiers horrifically wounded in World War I Shame and the Captives (2014), ISBN 147673464X, recounts the escape of Japanese prisoners of war in New South Wales during

 WWII Napoleon's Last Island (2015) Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime (1987) The Place Where Souls are Born: A Journey to the Southwest (1992) Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish (1992) Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993) The Utility Player: The Des Hasler Story (1993) Rugby league footballer Des Hasler Our Republic (1995) Homebush Boy: A Memoir (1995), autobiography The Great Shame (1998) American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (2002), biography of Daniel Sickles Lincoln (2003), biography of Abraham Lincoln The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia (2005) Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007) Australians: Origins to Eureka (2009) Three Famines: Starvation and Politics (2011) Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011) Australians: Flappers to Vietnam (2014) ^ a b c "Tom

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Talking Heads. ABC. 30 July 2007. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2015. ^ "Interview - Thomas Keneally". januarymagazine.com. ^ "It's an Honour - Honours - Search Australian Honours". itsanhonour.gov.au. ^ McClellan, Dennis (26 Sep 1994). "Keneally to Leave UCI for Home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 April 2013. ^ Toby Creswell and Samantha Trenoweth (2006). 1001 Australians You Should Know. Australia: Pluto Press. p.136. ISBN1-86403-361-4. ^ Tom Brock Lecture at the Australian Society for Sports History's website ^ FitzSimons, Peter (20 October 2007). "The Fitz Files". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia: Fairfax Media). Retrieved 2 October 2010. ^ "Obama lauds Rudd in 'meeting of the minds'". The Age.

^ "Former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally reveals her long-held TV dream, as she gets her own show". News Corp Australia. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014. ^ "A library he calls his own". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia: Fairfax Media). 24 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011. ^ "Schindler's List found in Sydney". BBC News. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2010. ^ (In Spanish) ^ "Daunting, haunting task for an author with a story to tell". theage.com.au. Thomas Keneally Thomas Keneally Jump to articles or comments The author of the 1982 Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark (later made into the film Schindler's List) has a glorious track record for historical fiction that’s powerfully relevant to modern concerns. In Napoleon’s Last Island Thomas Keneally reimagines an encounter between the exiled Bonaparte and a family living on the isolated South Atlantic island of St Helena.

Today he joins us from Australia to talk about his latest novel and luminous writing career. Text supplied by third party. Performance times We have no details of upcoming performances, if you do please let us know . Reviews & features 10 Jun 2016 It's hard to Imagine Better than Jonathan Safran Foer, Eimear McBride, Jackie Kay and Nicola Sturgeon The Edinburgh International Book Festival has launched its programme for 2016, and it's a corker. The theme this year is 'Imagine Better', and it's based on the power of writers to imagine better worlds. Here, we've picked some events that we're… Thomas Keneally: Quotes, Life and Career, Schindler's Ark, Bibliography, and a List of Books by Author Thomas Keneally Quotes more ï¿½ ï¿½ less "And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.""And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.""And I liked pluralist Australia.

I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.""And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.""And I was very interested in the priesthood.""And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.""And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.""Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.""But I was also a brat.

I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.""But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.""I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.""I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.""I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.""My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.""So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.""So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest.

But then it all fell apart.""So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.""Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.""Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.""You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing." Life and Career more ï¿½ ï¿½ less Born in Sydney, Keneally was educated at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where a writing prize was named after him. He entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly to train as a Catholic priest but left before his ordination. He worked as a Sydney schoolteacher before his success as a novelist, and he was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968—70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books.

Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. He is most famous for his Schindler's Ark (1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style. Keneally has also acted in a handful of films. He had a small role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (based on his novel) and played Father Marshall in the Fred Schepisi movie, The Devil's Playground (1976) (not to be confused with a similarly-titled documentary by Lucy Walker about the Amish rite of passage called rumspringa). In 1983 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. He is a strong advocate of the Australian republic, meaning the severing of all ties with the British monarchy, and published a book on the subject Our Republic in 1993.

Several of his Republican essays appear on the web site of the Australian Republican Movement. Keneally is a keen supporter of rugby league football, in particular the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the NRL. He made an appearance in the 2007 rugby league drama film The Final Winter. In March 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's Lincoln biography to President Barack Obama as a state gift. Most recently Thomas Keneally featured as a writer in the critically acclaimed Australian drama, "Our Sunburnt Country". Thomas Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally. Schindler's Ark more ï¿½ ï¿½ less Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a novelist, showed him his extensive files on Oskar Schindler.

Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Krakï¿½w and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated Schindler's Ark to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerged from the most unlikely places". The book was later made into a film titled Schindler's List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007).Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.

In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector.In April 2009 a copy of the list (including 801 names) was found in the documentation Thomas Keneally used as research material for his novel. The Place at Whitton (1964) The Fear (1965), rewritten in (1989) as By the Line. Bring Larks and Heroes (1967), winner of the Miles Franklin Award, set in an unidentified British penal colony. Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968), winner of the Miles Franklin Award, comic novel of a doubting priest. The Survivor (1969), a survivor looks back on a disastrous Arctic expedition. A Dutiful Daughter (1971), Keneally's personal favourite. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), also filmed. Written through the eyes of an exploited Aborigine who explodes in rage. Based on an actual incident. Keneally has said he would not now presume to write in the voice of an Aborigine, but would have written the story as seen by a white character.

Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974), a novel based loosely on the life of Joan of Arc. Gossip from the Forest (1975), tells of the negotiation of the armistice that ended World War I. Season in Purgatory (1976), love among Tito's partisans in World War II. Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees (1978), a book for children. A Victim of the Aurora (1978), a detective story set on an Antarctic expedition. Passenger (1979) Confederates (1979), based on Stonewall Jackson's army. The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980), Australia at war in 1942. Schindler's Ark (1982), winner of the Booker Prize, later retitled Schindler's List. A Family Madness (1985) The Playmaker (1987), prisoners perform a play in Australia in the 18th Century. Act of Grace (1985), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) By the Line (1989), working-class families face World War II in Sydney.

Towards Asmara (1989), the conflict in Eritrea. Flying Hero Class (1991), Palestinians hijack an aeroplane carrying an Aboriginal folk dance troupe. Chief of Staff (1991), (under the pseudonym William Coyle) Woman of the Inner Sea (1993), Keneally retells a story once told him by a young woman that haunted his imagination. Jacko (1993), madness and television.

A River Town (1995) An Angel in Australia (2000), also published as Office of Innocence The Tyrant's Novel (2003), an Australian immigration detainee tells his story The Widow and Her Hero (2007), the effect of war on those left behind The People's Train (2009), a dissident escapes from Russia to Australia in 1911, only to return to fight in the revolution Non-fiction A Journey to the Southwest (1992) Ireland and the Irish (1992) Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993) The Des Hasler Story (1993) Footballer Des Hasler Our Republic (1995) Lincoln (2003), biography of Abraham Lincoln The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (2003), biography of Daniel Sickles The Improbable Birth of Australia (2005) A Memoir (2007)

Question: Name the author of the 1982 Booker Prize-winning novel 'Schindlers Ark'.
Answer: THOMAS KENEALLY